Summer Ministry Update

“We
will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put
up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.” ~ Psalm 20:5
Bible in Basic English

Dear Friends in Christ,

We have had the privilege of serving several Christian schools and
churches in recent weeks. Whether sharing spiritual insights from
America’s Christian heritage on site in DC, or using historic flags as
part of creative demonstrations, Bernie continues to have many
remarkable ministry opportunities as an “American History Missionary!”
And our core vision of helping Christian families become Great
Commission families comes through in every ministry outing and speaking
opportunity!

1. Christian Schools - Seeing God’s Providence On Site With Insight

It was fun and rewarding to have dozens of junior high students (plus
parents & teachers) be marked with stories of America’s Christian
heritage. They also had the opportunity to step out in faith themselves
by giving scores of Bernie’s “Monumental Words” gospel fliers to tourist
in DC at the WWII Memorial. The flier is filled with the words on the
monuments about God: Washington Monument, Jefferson and Lincoln
Memorials, the White House Prayer and words about God left out of the
newer WWII Memorial. Some students said, “This is easy! Can I have more to give out?"

Pray
that these young people are marked by this evangelistic experience in a
way that continues in their lives as they mature in Christ. And pray
that they are not fooled by modern attempts to separate Americans from
our revolutionary roots. Specifically, that ultimately our rights come
from God, not government.

Bernie (left) using quotes about God from FDR, Eisenhower, Truman & Nimitz at the WWII Memorial

The class (below) helped two brothers find their great grandfather's grave at Arlington National Cemetary. He was a WWI Veteran.

2.
Every Church Family’s Three Mission Fields - (1) Under Your Own Roof,
(2) Where You Live Now and (3) Wherever in the World the Lord Might Take
You!

Daniel and Bernie had the delight to speak at the annual church family
retreat for Midtown Church of Altoona, PA. The location was at a castle
(no kidding!) near Franklin, PA. The church’s weekend theme was
“Celebrating the Harvest.” The leadership and people of this church have
a growing heart to reach out to the world around them. Bernie shared
ideas biblically and practically about how to do that with sessions on:
“God’s Plan for Households — It has always been God’s plan to use
earthly households to grow His heavenly kingdom.” “Your Home, Your
World, Your Calling, and Your Voice (multiple sessions).” If you would
like a pdf of Bernie’s handout notes, just send us a quick email. After
each talk it was a great encouragement for all to hear Daniel recite
significant portions of Scripture, including entire chapters: I John 1, 2
& 3 and Matt. 5:1-16. The weekend wrap-up discussion on how to
apply these things evangelistically as families and as a church was
wonderfully inspiring to witness!

3. Using Flags in Evangelism - Bernie Beall Style!

A few weeks later Bernie was back to help a group of Altoona area
churches for their annual outreach: Frontier Family Fest. Bernie served
as the after lunch evangelistic speaker where he did two flag
presentations. The first was entitled, “Four Flags George Washington
Served Under, or How We Got Our American Flag!” Young kids helped hold
each flag as Bernie shared a faith filled quote from George Washington
and a Bible verse with each flag. We’ve enclosed for you a card with his
handout notes for that presentation. (The back of the card are his
handout notes of spiritual lessons for the mansion tour at Mount
Vernon.) For the evangelistic conclusion, he shared the gospel message
in the history of the Pennsylvania state flag: “True liberty is not
permission to do whatever you want to do, but the ability to do what’s
right. And that is only possible in a right relationship with God.” In
total, Bernie has 14 state and historic American flags he uses to share
spiritual lessons. Visual aids make it easier for people to follow
along. And all his flag presentations can be done anytime, anywhere. :-)

To you our dear friends in Christ, THANK YOU for holding us up in prayer and with your support. We appreciate you!